Fonts Missing Again After Windows Update(KB5089573) in InDesign 21.4 (Times New Roman, Calibri, Univers)
Today, 27 May 2026, I updated to InDesign 21.4 and, sure enough, the Times New Roman issue has been resolved. Unfortunately, Univers Bold is now missing.
I reported the problem in November 2025. Since then, I’ve had to keep updating my files converting OTF to TTF. Following a new InDesign update sometime early this year, Calibri and Wingdings 2 were also missing.
An hour after this InDesign 24.1 update, Windows also released an update: KB 5089573, and now none of the fonts – TNR, Calibri and Univers – could be found. I uninstalled the Windows version and upon restarting, OS builds 26200.8524 and 26100.8524 were installed.
Everything was working normally again (except for Univers). An hour later, a new Windows update with the same issue appeared, and all the fonts were missing again.
"This cumulative update for Windows 11, versions 25H2 and 24H2 (KB5089573), includes production-quality improvements." That certainly doesn’t apply to me.
Once again, InDesign is altering the custom paragraph styles set by the user. Univers has been changed to a font that is not installed on the computer. That should be prohibited.
The update worked well for a few hours, but then Windows released a new update that messed up the handling of fonts again (after all, handling text is a basic function of InDesign).
In short, the update 24.1 is a failure with regard to font use because InDesign still relies on Windows.
I’m back to where I was at the end of November last year. All changes in my files have been undone (when I open them). Countless hours of (boring) work done for nothing.
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